Not so black and white

New light

Amber sat on my bed, reading a book upside down, whilst I tried to choose an outfit for tonight. We had gone through almost everything in my wardrobe, leaving a pile of clothes in the corner of my room. Trying on my last piece of clothing which was just this white skater dress.

“Ok. Amber. Please, please, please tell me that this one is ok, otherwise I’m wearing a bin bag and I’d rather avoid that scenario” I stood there, arms open, doing an awkward pose with a hopeful face.

She scrutinised the dressed, taking it in at every angle. I was waiting for the “Naa its shit”, but I was greeted with a huge smile and a thumbs up. Finally! I hate trying things on, but I didn’t want to look bad at a party.

Amber wore a baby blue dress, which matches her eyes and complemented her in all the right areas.

She let her straight blonde hair fall around her face. Whilst I tied my wavy long, brown hair up in a bun, with a few ringlets falling around my face.

Amber applied a bit of eye shadow and mascara, highlighting her baby blue eyes, whilst I went natural. But I spoke to soon because Alex came barging in looking absolutely gorgeous in her red dress, matching her red hair. She was the same height as Amber but her golden heels added a little more height.

“Nope, don’t even think about it! I got ready extra early so that I could come and do your make up and make you look hot” She grabbed my make-up and took it all out. She sat me down, ignoring my protests, and began to work her magic. After about 15 minutes, she turned me around to face the mirror. And I was gob-smacked.  My (darker than Amber’s) blue eyes popped out. Alex had applied smokey eye shadow and eye liner. Then she put on the mascara and some lip gloss. Any blemishes were covered up and I definitely looked different.

“Wow…Thanks Alex” I hugged her.

“Don’t mention it! And before you even think about putting your converse on, you’re wearing your black wedges. This party is happening at your house, therefore you are the host, therefore you’ve got to look hot” I didn’t really understand her reasoning, Id much rather wear comfy shoes than go through agony all night, but judging the look she was giving me, I could tell there was no room for argument. So against my better judgement, I put on the high wedges.

“Good! Now come on girls, everyone else is already here!” Alex said excitedly.

Amber and I giggled as my best friend practically skipped out of my room. We all walked downstairs, and a few heads turned. My cheeks turned slightly pink whilst Amber and Alex were complete unfazed. As we reached the bottom of the stairs, Max grabbed both Amber and me “Both of you go and change. Now” He gave us a hard look. He always was a protective brother.

“Please Max, it took us agessssss” Amber told him, giving him her cute puppy dog smile.

He looked between our puppy dog smiles and began to chuckle “You girls are going to be the death of me. Fine, but Amber you’re not allowed to drink”

Amber gave him a salute and then wandered off, whilst I looked for some of my friends. And surely enough, they were all gathered in a circle, laughing with drinks in their hands. As I approached them, Alex handed me a drink and I was greeted with a rather drunk Axel.

He put his arm around me and brought me into a tight hug “Oceanna! Do you know you’re one of my bestest friendssssss?” He grabbed my shoulders and looked me in the eyes.

“Awww Im touched Axel, you know you’re one of mine too” I laughed as a smile broke out onto his face.

Alex was leaning against her boyfriend, Tyler, laughing at Axel’s state whilst Beau, Cleo and Cory were trying to get more drinks down him. Axel is considered the lightweight of our group. We were all laughing so hard it began to hurt our stomachs which, in turn, made us laugh even more. We all had had some drinks down us, so we were quite free. We all danced along to “Don’t stop us now” by Queen when Axel managed to sneakily change the music. After our little dance, I had to go and catch my breath and sit down. As I was looking around the house booming with music, I noticed all the cups everywhere and just how packed our house was. This is going to be torture to clean in the morning but at least every one is having a good time. Mid-way through thought I was greeted by ‘sleepy’ from Blade’s group of friends.